Smoking Cessation Services Should Encourage E-Cigarette Use, UK Experts Say
The UK's Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH) has recently appealed to smoking cessation services across the country to promote electronic cigarettes as low-risk alternatives to smoking as a way of improving public health and saving lives. According to RSPH experts, it's time for NHS stop smoking services to adopt a less negative attitude toward cigarettes and educate the public about the difference between nicotine dependence and inhaling thousands of known dangerous...
Read More...Asian Smokers See E-Cigarettes as Positive Alternative to Tobacco, Survey Shows
In an attempt to gain a better understanding of Asian consumers' demand for less hazardous alternatives to cigarettes, Asian consumer advocacy group Factasia commissioned a first-of-its-kind survey across South-East Asia. Recently revealed results show the vast majority of adult smokers see e-cigarettes as a positive alternative to smoking. The survey was conducted by international polling company Ipsos, in six major Asian markets. Although final results have not yet been...
Read More...Electronic Cigarette Vendors Score Major Victory in Austria
Electronic cigarette vendors in Austria can breathe a sigh of relief after the Constitutional Court overturned an amendment that would have limited the sale of most vaping-related products to officially licensed tobacco shops. E-cigarettes and e-liquid can currently be sold freely in Austria, but according to an amendment supported by the Government, come October 2015 their sale was to be limited to licensed tobacconists, effectively putting all other e-cigarette vendors...
Read More...New Mathematical Model Accurately Predicts Amounts of Nicotine Emitted by E-Cigarettes
A team of American scientists claim to have created the world's first mathematical model that can predict the amount of nicotine emitted by electronic cigarettes with up to 90% accuracy. Scientists from the Massey Cancer Center at Virginia Commonwealth University started off by collecting various information about electronic cigarettes and how they are used, including voltage levels, concentrations of nicotine in e-liquid and length of time a person could inhale from...
Read More...Australia Treating E-Cigarettes Like Heroin or Cocaine, Substance Abuse Expert Says
Professor Wayne Hall, an Australian substance abuse expert and advisor to the World Health Organisation, has recently pleaded for moderation in policies on electronic cigarettes, comparing current restrictions with those on drugs like heroin and cocaine Australian authorities have always taken a hard stance against electronic cigarettes. Nicotine-containing electronic cigarettes cannot be sold in the country legally, forcing users to order supplies from abroad, via...
Read More...Dutch Company Announces Revolutionary E-Cigarette Technology
Untited Tobacco Vapor Group (UTVG) has just issued a press release announcing new e-cigarette technology that will revolutionize the industry by eliminating a series of problems that have plagued vaping for years. The Monfoort-based company, which owns brands like Premium Vapes, Vape Master and eHitter, among others, has apparently patented a proprietary electronic cigarette design that promises to eliminate problems like overheating, dry hits, burning and potential...
Read More...Italian Vapers Hold Protest Against E-Cigarette Supertax
On July 7th, hundreds of Italian vapers staged a protest in front of the Ministry of Economy, in Rome, to denounce the excessive taxation of e-liquid, which has already been pronounced unconstitutional by the Italian Constitutional Court. Members of the vaping community, manufacturers and distributors showed up at the Ministry of Economy waving banners that read "We don't want to die of smoking, but live vaping" to send a clear signal to the Government that they were...
Read More...Shady Facebook Post about Person Killed by E-Cigarettes Goes Viral
As if all the disinformation from anti-smoking groups and the media weren't bad enough, now we have random people posting about e-cigarette -related deaths on Facebook. And you wouldn't believe the attention this stuff is getting right now. So here's the deal. Late last month, someone posted a status update on Facebook about one of her neighbors who had recently died from what she claimed was suffocation caused by electronic cigarettes. Here's the exact posting: "Just...
Read More...Musician Attributes Hearing Loss to Electronic Cigarettes
Australian musician Rob Swire recently toot to Twitter to bash electronic cigarettes, more specifically the propylene glycol in the e-liquid, for causing him to temporarily lose hearing in his left ear. Swire, the lead singer of drum and base band Pendulum and DJ of electronic dance music duo Knife Party, first tweeted about suddenly becoming deaf on July 5th, adding that he was going to see a doctor. The next day, Rob announced that his hearing had been restored and...
Read More...E-Cigarette Market to Reach $50 Billion by 2030, Analysts Predict
The latest data released by Euromonitor shows that the e-cigarette market has reached the $6 billion mark, and analysts predict that if legislation remains as is, the vaping sector could grow to $50 Billion by 2030. Despite reports of e-cigarette sales declining last year, official Euromonitor data shows that the market is still growing at a very fast pace. Globally, sales of vaping devices grew by 59% to a record $6.1 Billion, as business in the world's largest market,...
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